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You all are snowflakes but please explain this to me without triggering me
this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2025
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What's annoying and nobody seems to grasp is that even if the tax was on the foreign producer instead of the domestic consumer, the end result would be the same thing. They wouldn't just eat the cost lol.
This becomes so obvious when the tariff is over 100%. The supplier is obviously not paying 125% of the sale price in taxes.
If an entire cult is too fucking stupid to recognize what’s hurting them, then how the fuck could tariffs be MAGA’s death knell like some people are saying? You could literally douse some of these people in gasoline and tell them, ‘I need you to burn for just a couple seconds for Trump,’ and they’d fucking do it.
I saw some asshole in an interview saying, “Sometimes you gotta walk through the fire first.”
Like…Yeah? Maybe. Just don’t start by lighting yourself the fuck on fire. 😕🔫
It took Nazis months in Stalingrad to realize Hitler didn't give a fuck about them. Shit, a lot of them probably died out there in the snow and ice thinking they were doing a great job for him.
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PLEASE be Nice to Him! He THOUGHT Electing Trump would mean he could PUNCH TRANS KIDS in Public and Run Over Immigrant Children! He DIDNT think it would Hurt HIS Wallet! He's WHITE For Pete's Sake! Show some SYMPATHY!
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Is it surprising that the people who thought Mexico would pay for a border wall also don't understand how tariffs work?
They STILL don't get it? Everyone has been yelling about exactly what would happen. The news, social media, people protesting in the streets... even Fox News is critical of the Tariffs now. Journalists are bringing it up at White House press conferences and getting reaponses from the Press Secretary. This is not a secret. What sort of social bubble/echo chamber, do these people live in? Just fully bought in to the kool-aid. Useful idiots, the lot of them!
They have been conditioned to believe that the mainstream media is evil and constantly lies to them in order to facilitate the woke communist takeover and destruction of the USA.
So it would be an understatement to say they are working from a position of willful ignorance.
Social bubbles/echo chambers is exactly what has created this. Why did Musk buy X and Trump created his own social media?
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You voted for it, you figure it out
What's to explain? You got lied to by a liar who says he never lies, and you believed him.
It's like complaining that you didn't realize the Leopard you elected would have spots, when he's ALWAYS had spots.
A tariff is a tax on foreign goods, paid by the consumer.
IT. IS. A TAX
Probably the whole reason behind it. A tax that your deeply tax-hating clientele is not recognizing. And also a regressive tax, that hurts poor people disproportionately harder then rich people, compared to taxes like income tax.
People still don't know?! Lmao. How stupid can you be?
Very. Very, very stupid.
Think of how stupid the average person is. The. Realize half of people arw dumber then that
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You can't explain it to them. Not even by using toy cars or gobstoppers.
"There's none so deaf as those who will not listen"
You can't even use Upton Sinclair's quote for these people: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." They're not even getting a salary for supporting this shit bucket!
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This is 39% of the voting population folks....
Big sad. :(
If he's 100% Trump, the Trump tariff is $100. Simple.
Tell him to buy $23 worth of $TRUMP coin or he'll be deported for ripping off his lord and saviour.
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Easy, according to Republicans 2+2=5, therefore your regular bill of $100 is actually $177 now. It's not a surcharge, they're literally the same number so the math checks out. Just enjoy your life, have more kids, and don't worry too much about politics, Trump has you covered.
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If someone explained to him what tariffs are and how they work without mentioning the president at first, and how it will impact his spending money, there's a chance he might finally admit to Trump making a mistake.
Almost everyone is in favor of the Affordable Care Act, but as soon as they hear “Obamacare” it’s suddenly evil.
Or like how ~~Burger King~~ A&W’s 1/3 pound burger never took off because Americans are too stupid to realize 1/3 is a bigger number than 1/4 so they go to McDonald’s instead.
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That profile picture looks EXACTLY like I picture those people... I hope this is a joke.
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Do your research.
Ok, ok. Trump absolutely loves you just as much as you love him, double if you're uneducated. He told all of the businesses that they should lose money on sales and go out of business instead of raising prices. It's those businesses who are assholes. They haven't even started manufacturing in US, and hiring white Americans to make t shirts yet, and its been a whole week! If you support Trump, then boycott businesses who pass on tariff costs, because they just don't love you/America as much as he does.
Just cultist things.
This is why I'm hesitant to believe the tariffs will be the death knell of MAGA.
It might be enough to get the idiots who voted for him because they don't understand how markets work and blamed Biden, but these committed idiots will look the truth in the face and spit in it's eye because it doesn't line up with what they've committed themselves to.
Maybe I'm pessimistic. We've got almost four full years and the one thing this idiot has been committed to where it comes to economics is tariffs, namely on the biggest producer of our shit and that's a long time to be paying a thousand dollars for a cellphone, but I have really lost faith in the ability of human beings to put narrow self interest over blind prejudice.
Is it ok that I want the all to outright die? I want them to decay slowly, like the living manure they are. They deserve nothing else.
Congress can take the power to set tariffs away from the president. But will they? Highly doubtful.
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